Fast Facts Redux: Tony Stewart

Three-time Sprint Cup Series champ Tony Stewart is the
driver of the No. 14 Chevrolet SS and co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, also the
home of Kevin Harvick, Danica Patrick and Kurt Busch. Learn more about the 1999
Cup Series Rookie of the Year in this revisited Fast Facts, originally
published in March 2011.

Anthony Wayne Stewart was born May 20, 1971 in Columbus,
Indiana. He raced go-karts, earning a World Karting Association title in 1987,
and three-quarter midgets before moving up to USAC, where he took Rookie of the
Year honors in 1991. In 1994, Stewart won the USAC Midget title, and in 1995,
he completed the USAC “Triple Crown” – winning the Midget, Sprint Car, and
Silver Crown titles; he was the first driver to win all three in one season.

Stewart raced in the Indy Racing League when it was founded
in 1996 and won championship in 1997. During those years, he also saw limited
action in NASCAR, completing in the Busch (now Xfinity) Series and the
Craftsman (now Camping World) Truck Series. In 1998, he moved to Joe Gibbs
Racing, impressing Gibbs enough that Stewart signed on for a full-time ride in
the Cup Series with JGR starting in 1999.

In ten years at Joe Gibbs Racing (1999 to 2008), Stewart won
33 races and two titles (2002 and 2005). He split from JGR after the 2008,
having purchased half of Haas-CNC Racing. The newly-named Stewart-Haas Racing,
pairing Stewart with fellow Hoosier Ryan Newman, earned its first win at the
Sprint All-Star Race in May 2009, following that with Stewart’s first points
win as an owner/driver at Pocono in June of that year. In 2011, Stewart won his
third Cup Series title and first as an owner.

In 2013, Stewart – a big proponent of sprint car and dirt
track racing – broke his leg while moonlighting at a sprint car race in Iowa in
August; he missed the rest of the season recovering. In August 2014, Stewart –
in one of his first races back in a sprint car since the injury – was involved
in an on-track incident that resulted in the death of another driver, Kevin
Ward Jr.; Stewart missed three races in the aftermath.

Stewart twice attempted “Double Duty” – competing in the
Indy 500 and Coca Cola 600 in the same day. In 1999, he finished ninth at Indy
and fourth at Charlotte, completing 1,090 of 1,100 possible miles. In 2001, he
successfully completed the “Double,” placing sixth at Indy and third at
Charlotte, and running all 1,100 miles.

Stewart is the owner of Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, and
co-owns two other dirt tracks; he also purchased the All-Star Circuit of
Champions Sprint Car Series in Jan. 2015. Stewart also owns Tony Stewart
Racing, which fields cars in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.

Founded in 2003, the Tony Stewart Foundation raises money to
help car for chronically ill children, drivers injured in motorsports
activities, and numerous animal-related funds.